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Hospitality as Ministry (Marriage as a Mission) Pt 2 - 341 · Marriage Life and More and Bible Study

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Daniel Moore: When was the last time you looked around your living room and thought, you know what?
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Daniel Moore: This could be a mission field.
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Daniel Moore: I mean, most of us look around and think, this place needs vacuumed, or who left their shoes in the middle of the floor again.
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Daniel Moore: But what if God sees something more?
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Daniel Moore: What if that couch where everyone fights over the remote, that kitchen table covered with homework and mail, and that dining room where nobody remembers to use coasters could become a place where lives are changed for eternity?
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Daniel Moore: This week we're talking about how God can use ordinary homes and ordinary marriages for extraordinary kingdom impact.
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Daniel Moore: We're going to explore why some of the most powerful ministry doesn't happen under bright church lights, but around coffee cups, casseroles, and conversations that last longer than anyone planned.
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Daniel Moore: Because sometimes discipleship looks less like a sermon and more like serving tacos while helping someone carry a burden.
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Daniel Moore: So grab your coffee, pull up your chair, and let's talk about how your marriage and your home can become a lighthouse for Christ in a world that's desperately searching for genuine connection.
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Daniel Moore: Welcome to Marriage Life and More.
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Michelle Moore: Hey, hey! I almost forgot to say hey hey.
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Daniel Moore: Well, last week we started off an interesting subject, I think, that really probably doesn't get covered very often.
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Daniel Moore: And that's how, as married couples, not only does our marriages, we talk a lot about our marriages being examples to others and being an evangelistic field, uh being a ministry as far as the marriage is concerned.
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Daniel Moore: Uh, but a lot of times we don't really talk about how we can take that to our homes and how our homes can become part of that as well.
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Daniel Moore: Right.
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Daniel Moore: And I think last week we started off this episode.
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Daniel Moore: We're gonna wrap it up this week, and we're gonna continue talking about how we can actually use our homes to be a ministry and how God actually gives us these blessings so that we can pay that forward and bless other people with what He's given us.
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Daniel Moore: So this week we're gonna go ahead and get started into this.
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Daniel Moore: We got a lot of territory to cover, and we're gonna go ahead and do part two of episode eight, hospitality as ministry.
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Michelle Moore: Welcoming others for small groups to neighbors.
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Michelle Moore: One of the most powerful ways married couples can steward their homes for the kingdom of God is by opening their doors for small groups, Bible studies, and genuine fellowship.
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Michelle Moore: Our homes were never meant to be just private retreats where we hide from the world, binge watch shows, and argue over whose turn it is to unload the dishwasher.
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Michelle Moore: God designed our homes to become places where people encounter Him.
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Michelle Moore: A Christ-centered home should not only protect your family, it should also refresh weary souls.
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Michelle Moore: Sunday morning church services are important.
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Michelle Moore: Corporate worship matters, preaching matters.
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Michelle Moore: Gathering together as the body of Christ matters deeply.
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Michelle Moore: But if we're honest, your spiritual growth often happens in circles, not just rows.
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Michelle Moore: There's something powerful about sitting shoulder to shoulder in a sanctuary, but there's something transformational about sitting face to face in a living room with open Bibles, honest conversations, and people who know your struggles well enough to pray specifically for them.
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Michelle Moore: Anybody who has attended a large church knows it can sometimes feel a little overwhelming.
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Michelle Moore: You may sit beside the same family for six months and still only know them as the people with the cute kids and the aggressively loud cough during prayer requests.
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Michelle Moore: But small groups change that.
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Michelle Moore: Small groups take strangers and turn them into spiritual family.
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Michelle Moore: They create space for people to move beyond service level smiles and church greetings into authentic discipleship and meaningful relationships.
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Michelle Moore: Acts 2, 46, 47 gives us a beautiful picture of the early church.
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Michelle Moore: They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all people.
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Michelle Moore: Notice where much of the ministry happened.
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Michelle Moore: It happened in the homes, not cathedrals, not conference centers, not elaborate church campuses, kitchens, living rooms, courtyards, dinner tables.
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Michelle Moore: The early church understood something we desperately need to rediscover today.
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Michelle Moore: Discipleship grows best in closed community.
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Daniel Moore: So as we get started here this week, there's a lot of truth there in what you've opened up with this week.
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Daniel Moore: And I a quick question for you.
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Michelle Moore: I think you like doing those quick questions for me.
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Daniel Moore: Yeah, I do, but you've got this one.
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Michelle Moore: We'll see.
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Michelle Moore: I got faith in you.
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Michelle Moore: All right, we'll see.
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Daniel Moore: So we know and you know that one of your love languages is service.
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Daniel Moore: Uh-huh.
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Daniel Moore: Uh, we know that you enjoy serving people, hosting, all that kind of thing.
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Daniel Moore: That's just right up your alley.
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Daniel Moore: And so we've actually, as we discussed last week, where we've participated in that several times as we've had different life groups between the last church we were in plus the one we're in now.
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Daniel Moore: And so we've been able to experience a little bit of what it's like to share our home and share our resources with other people.
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Daniel Moore: So we do attend a big church.
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Daniel Moore: Uh our church is, you know, five campuses counting online.
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Daniel Moore: Uh, so there's a lot of people that go to our church, and it was very overwhelming when we first started trying to get to know people.
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Michelle Moore: It was.
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Daniel Moore: And but one thing that they kept telling us is they really hammered life groups.
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Michelle Moore: Yes, they did.
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Daniel Moore: And they kept saying that, you know, life groups, that's where you actually start getting to know your circles.
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Daniel Moore: You know, you start you get people that'll either you join a life group for which we j we joined one first before we led one, and so we became part of someone else's leadership and then eventually went off on our own and started our own because there was such a need there, and that is our heart um to do that kind of thing.
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Daniel Moore: And now we tell people you need to get in a life group because that you're it is it's amazing how you do get to know people uh so much better and your little circle starts growing bigger and bigger the more that you become involved with people.
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Daniel Moore: So from your aspect of it, when you being service-minded and uh, you know, loving to do that kind of thing, what are some benefits do you think of not just keeping it in a church, but actually going ahead and bringing it into a home where it's more intimate?
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Daniel Moore: You might have more opportunity to to actually pray for each other and that kind of thing.
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Daniel Moore: What what are some of the the positives that you think from you having a servant type heart?
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Daniel Moore: Uh what drives you, I guess, to to want to do those kinds of things and what's the benefits you think from that doing it at home versus church?
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Michelle Moore: I think, you know, in church, you you go to church, you say hi to people, and you know, if you get to have conversation or whatever, it's a short conversation.
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Daniel Moore: Yeah.
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Michelle Moore: So one of the benefits that I would say very it warms my heart is to be able to sit down and get to know people and their stories.
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Michelle Moore: And not just their stories, but what are they walking through?
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Michelle Moore: You know, what is it there that you can sit there and just hold their hand and be that person to let them lay everything down?
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Michelle Moore: Not just God, but to lay down things that they know that you can be praying for them.
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Daniel Moore: Yeah.
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Michelle Moore: You know, that prayer partner.
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Michelle Moore: And the other thing is, you know, you're fellowshipping.
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Michelle Moore: It's not just as one, you're not one-on-one.
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Michelle Moore: It is as a group, a corporate groom.
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Michelle Moore: And you can hear other people's stories and you can encourage each other.
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Michelle Moore: And it's like, I didn't know you'd walk through that because I'm hearing your story, that's helping me.
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Michelle Moore: Right.
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Michelle Moore: So, you know, because we all have different stories and our life groups were different ages.
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Michelle Moore: And also, you know, you also get to when you're sitting down, you're hearing other people give their description of what the service was, what what the word meant to them and what they took out of it.
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Michelle Moore: And it's so amazing because of different personalities, how they all receive something.
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Michelle Moore: And, you know, when they're speaking it out, it's like I didn't see it that way.
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Michelle Moore: Yeah.
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Michelle Moore: And then, you know, as prayer, these people feel confidence in the fact that they can lay out their prayer requests and you're laying hands on them and you're praying for them, believing in the miracle that God's gonna, you know, do for them or be with them or sustain them.
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Michelle Moore: And for me, I just absolutely the joy inside my heart to be able to cook, open my home and bake for someone to help them.
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Michelle Moore: I I don't know, I can't even describe it.
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Michelle Moore: It's just something, it's like a ministry for me.
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Michelle Moore: Like, oh, I'm like, what am I gonna bake?
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Michelle Moore: What am I gonna cook?
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Michelle Moore: And and I do, I get excited, I start going through Pinterest, and I'm like, oh, I can do this, I can do that.
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Michelle Moore: And I have to reel myself in because it's like they're not here for that.
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Michelle Moore: They're here for you.
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Daniel Moore: Right.
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Michelle Moore: It's not, I mean, yeah, of course they're there for the food and some of the baked goods, don't don't get me wrong, but they're they're here for the relationship part.
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Daniel Moore: Yeah.
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Michelle Moore: And they're here to hear your story and walk along with them.
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Daniel Moore: Yeah.
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Daniel Moore: And so in essence, you know, a lot of what you've described, you get at church to an extent, but I feel like at home it's way more intimate.
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Michelle Moore: Yes, very more relational.
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Michelle Moore: Relational, yeah.
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Michelle Moore: You more deeper.
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Daniel Moore: You have that opportunity just to just sit down one-on-one eventually with somebody and hear a story that you probably never ever would have heard just passing them in the hallways at church.
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Michelle Moore: And I think the prayer, you know, when someone gives that opportunity to say, Would you pray for me?
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Michelle Moore: And walking, you know, just checking on them during the week, you know, being like, Okay, how's this going?
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Michelle Moore: You know, and they're like, You're thinking about this.
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Michelle Moore: You're you know, I know that's how I felt in our life group.
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Michelle Moore: If we put it, you know, not ours, but when we attended one, I knew I had sisters in Christ that were praying for me and that they would be there for me if I just send something to the group and like, hey, we need prayer for this.
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Michelle Moore: There'd no doubt in my mind.
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Michelle Moore: And it would be a couple days later, um, the head leader would say, Hey, how's it going?
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Daniel Moore: Yeah.
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Michelle Moore: You don't get that when you're just sitting in a church, you know.
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Michelle Moore: You you get the more relational side of it and the more personal and as you said, intimate side.
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Daniel Moore: Yeah.
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Michelle Moore: From a life group.
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Daniel Moore: And we would always make a text stream.
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Daniel Moore: And so each life group basically becomes someone's prayer line.
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Daniel Moore: Yeah because we tell we'd tell everybody, everybody's in this text, and if anybody has a need throughout the week that needs to be brought before the throne, we're all here to pray for each other and to lift each other up.
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Daniel Moore: Throw that prayer request in there.
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Michelle Moore: Yeah, it's doing life together.
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Daniel Moore: Yeah, it's doing life together.
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Michelle Moore: It's doing real life together.
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Daniel Moore: Yeah.
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Daniel Moore: And so when you look at it that way, it kind of gives you just a bigger understanding of why having home fellowship is so important in so many ways for so many people.
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Daniel Moore: You know, if your church has a bunch of these different groups all over the place, uh closest to wherever your people are attending, you know, with our church, um, there's people that attend from many, many different places, and it brings all that closer together.
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Daniel Moore: And, you know, as we talk about this, we realize that some of the deepest ministry moments happen between coffee cups and kitchen chairs.
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Daniel Moore: Yeah.
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Daniel Moore: I mean, just the way that you've been describing all everything from your uh your scope of how you see things, uh, we see the importance of of how this is to take place in this atmosphere.
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Daniel Moore: You know, and the encouraging part for married couples that are listening this week, you don't need to have a perfect home to host meaningful fellowship.
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Daniel Moore: You know, a lot of us are kind of perfect in our own little world.
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Daniel Moore: We want everything to be just so-so, and I'm one of those that's guilty of that sometimes.
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Daniel Moore: But in all reality, we don't need matching furniture, we don't need expensive decorations, we don't need your kids to behave perfectly for two consecutive hours, which honestly may qualify as a modern miracle anyway.
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Michelle Moore: And I have to laugh about the matching furniture.
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Michelle Moore: As soon as you come in, you're gonna see a different cloth on our furniture because Mr.
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Michelle Moore: Wilford had or golden doodle.
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Michelle Moore: Yes, had eight the corner of our fabric.
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Michelle Moore: Not even fabric, it's leather.
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Daniel Moore: Of our brand new leather love seat.
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Daniel Moore: Yeah.
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Michelle Moore: And so we bought a little, so that's the first thing you see when you come in the door.
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Michelle Moore: And it used to bother me because I'm thinking, what did people think about this?
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Michelle Moore: But now it's like, yeah, yeah, we have a dog.
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Daniel Moore: Yeah, we purchased a piece of leather that's sticky to go over that.
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Daniel Moore: It's not the same color.
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Daniel Moore: Covered it up, but it wasn't the same color, so it sticks out like a sort of thing.
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Michelle Moore: So technically, I mean, we Dan is picky.
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Michelle Moore: I will tell you guys that.
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Michelle Moore: He is picky, and you know what?
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Michelle Moore: But the the piciness out of him, if there's something that bothers him, he does it himself.
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Michelle Moore: He does not ask me, hey, will you go do that?
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Michelle Moore: Because this is bothering me.
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Michelle Moore: Dan will take care of it himself.
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Michelle Moore: So he can be picky all he wants because that's his thing and he will take care of it.
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Michelle Moore: But I had to laugh about that because I was like, well, matching furniture, that's a m.
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Daniel Moore: Yeah.
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Daniel Moore: But you know, at the bottom of all of this, we just have to have a willing heart.
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Daniel Moore: Yeah.
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Daniel Moore: You know, that's that's where this all comes from.
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Daniel Moore: Yeah.
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Daniel Moore: You know, far too many couples, you know, as couples, sometimes we'll convince ourselves that we're unqualified to host because we compare our homes to carefully curated social media pictures.
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Daniel Moore: But biblical hospitality has never been about perfection, it's always been about availability.
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Daniel Moore: If you look at Romans chapter 12, verse 13, it tells believers to practice hospitality.
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Daniel Moore: That word practice matters because hospitality is not about putting on a performance, it's about creating space for people to encounter grace.
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Daniel Moore: And if we're really honest about this, authenticity is often more impactful than polish.
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Michelle Moore: Yeah.
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Daniel Moore: You know, people are not looking for perfect Christians, they're looking for real people whose lives point them to a real Savior.
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Daniel Moore: And so, in our in our minds, you know, looking at it biblically, that's why small groups can become such a sacred place.
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Daniel Moore: Because in those smaller circles, struggles hidden in crowds finally come into the light.
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Daniel Moore: Marriages get strengthened, prayer becomes personal, walls come down, and burdens get shared.
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Daniel Moore: If you look at Galatians chapter 6, verse 2, it tells us to carry each other's burdens.
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Daniel Moore: And small groups create an environment where that can actually become possible.
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Daniel Moore: It's hard to carry burdens for people that you never truly know.
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Daniel Moore: And so when we look at that, that you know, that does bring those barriers down because the closer you get to people, the more they trust you.
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Michelle Moore: Yes.
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Daniel Moore: And if and they walk, they watch your walk with God.
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Daniel Moore: You know, they know if you're faking it or making it, you know.
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Daniel Moore: And so if they truly feel like you have a connection with Christ and you're a true leader, and they trust you with their prayer requests, knowing that you're going to take those before the throne and that you're going to add them to your list, uh, then they're going to be more apt to open up to you and actually bring you on board to agree with them in prayer that they're going to get the answer that they need to those needs.
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Daniel Moore: And so there's so much more to just, hey, come over and let's have dinner tonight, you know.
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Daniel Moore: That's part of it.
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Daniel Moore: But this gets deep.
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Daniel Moore: Yeah.
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Daniel Moore: You know, if we truly put this into motion of what having a hospitality type atmosphere at your home really means, this really gets deep and it's life-changing.
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Daniel Moore: So once you go ahead and continue there.
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Michelle Moore: Yeah.
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Michelle Moore: Isolation weakens believers, but biblical community strengthens them.
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Michelle Moore: And married couples have unique opportunity within that community.
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Michelle Moore: Sometimes your greatest ministry won't happen from a stage, it happens from your couch.
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Michelle Moore: Maybe you've walked through financial hardship and learned how to trust God through uncertainty.
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Michelle Moore: Maybe your marriage survived a difficult season and your testimony can encourage another struggling couple.
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Michelle Moore: Maybe you've experienced grief or addiction recovery, parenting struggles, or seasons of spiritual dryness.
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Michelle Moore: God rarely wastes pain.
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Michelle Moore: Second Corinthians 1 reminds us that the comfort God gives us becomes comfort we can extend to others.
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Michelle Moore: Your story may become someone else's survival guide.
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Michelle Moore: As I said before, when we were talking at the table, there's been multiple times that someone would say something, and it helped me tremendously to walk through that.
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Michelle Moore: So that is so true.
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Michelle Moore: Sometimes ministry looks less like preaching sermons and more like serving chili in paper bowls while listening to someone pour their heart out at your dining room table.
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Michelle Moore: And honestly, those moments matter deeply to God.
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Michelle Moore: Your living room can become a sanctuary when the presence of Jesus fills the atmosphere.
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Michelle Moore: In a world that is lonelier than ever, Christian homes have an opportunity to shine brightly.
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Michelle Moore: People are starving for authentic connection.
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Michelle Moore: Social media gives us constant interaction, but very little true fellowship.
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Michelle Moore: Many people are surrounded digitally by feeling isolated emotionally.
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Michelle Moore: And as I was saying that, I stopped, I paused for a moment because, you know, you think about that.
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Michelle Moore: That is so true.
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Michelle Moore: You know, the digital world, it gives it nobody, you know.
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Michelle Moore: But when you're sitting there talking to someone and you're surrounded by them and you think about that, you've just at church, you know, when you're sitting next to someone you you don't know, the opportunity to sit there and say, hey, my name's so-and-so, what's yours?
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Michelle Moore: You know, and because our church is so big, there's been so many times that I'm like, oh, how long have you been attending, you know, here?
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Michelle Moore: And it's like, and then, you know, sometimes they'll say, Well, it's been a couple of years.
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Michelle Moore: And it's like, dude, you must sit on the other side of the church, you know, because I haven't met you yet.
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Michelle Moore: And so it's my goal to a lot of times if we're sitting by someone we don't know, is to introduce myself.
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Michelle Moore: Yeah.
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Michelle Moore: And because I think it's so important, um, but you know, as if you ever sit next to them again, you try to remember their name and like, oh, hey, we're sitting next to each other again, you know.
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Michelle Moore: So the church has the opportunity to change that, one home at a time.
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Michelle Moore: And couples don't underestimate what God can do through ordinary consistency.
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Michelle Moore: One weekly Bible study or one faithful prayer night is an open invitation, one meal share together.
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Michelle Moore: Those simple acts can create lifelong transformation.
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Michelle Moore: It's amazing how quickly strangers become family when they cry together, laugh together, study scripture together, eat tacos.
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Michelle Moore: Uh eat tacos together, Daniel Moore.
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Daniel Moore: Why do you think that's in there?
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Michelle Moore: People, he loves tacos.
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Michelle Moore: As I'm I'm like, no, he did not put that.
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Daniel Moore: So, yes, so you're gonna get we have a taco bar sometimes at our life groups.
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Daniel Moore: That's like a meal made in heaven.
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Michelle Moore: No wonder that's there.
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Michelle Moore: I had to stop over that.
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Michelle Moore: I'm just like, oh my gosh.
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Michelle Moore: There's something holy about tacos and testimonies, guys.
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Michelle Moore: I mean, I'm just telling you right now.
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Michelle Moore: So um there's another layer to the conversation that's incredibly important besides just tacos and testimonies.
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Michelle Moore: Opening our homes for fellowship and discipleship isn't just helpful for today, it may also be a preparation for tomorrow.
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Michelle Moore: Jesus warned in Matthew 24 that difficult days would come for believers.
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Michelle Moore: Scripture consistently reminds us that following Christ will not always be culturally celebrated.
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Michelle Moore: Around the world, we are already witnessing increasing hostility toward Christianity in many places.
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Michelle Moore: And history repeatedly shows that when public Christianity faces pressure, the church often becomes stronger in private homes.
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Michelle Moore: In countries like China, Iran, and North Korea, believers gather secretly at homes, risking imprisonment and persecution simply to worship together and study the word of God.
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Michelle Moore: Their courage is both humbling and inspiring.
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Michelle Moore: These believers remind us that revival does not require a massive building or celebrity platforms.
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Michelle Moore: Revival only requires surrendered hearts filled with the Spirit of God.
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Michelle Moore: And I keep thinking of the that as it says, revival only requires surrendered hearts.
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Michelle Moore: And if you notice, that is something I feel like it we keep saying, not just surrendered hearts, but the openness of being willing to do this.
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Michelle Moore: So it's like a constant.
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Michelle Moore: So as we go through this, you guys may hear that a couple times, um, just maybe in different words.
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Michelle Moore: The early church in Acts understood this reality too.
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Michelle Moore: Acts 542 says day after day in the temple, courts and from house to house, they never stop teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus is the Messiah.
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Michelle Moore: Did you catch that phrase?
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Michelle Moore: From house to house.
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Michelle Moore: Two houses.
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Michelle Moore: When opposition increased, homes become sacred spaces for discipleship, prayer, worship, and spiritual survival.
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Michelle Moore: And honestly, there's something beautiful about realizing that what many couples see as just hosting a small group may actually be spiritual training ground.
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Michelle Moore: You are learning how to pray together, how to disciple others, how to encourage believers, how to create spiritual refuge in ordinary spaces.
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Michelle Moore: Those are kingdom skills.
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Daniel Moore: Yes.
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Daniel Moore: And one thing that I really want to draw attention to, you know, with this portion of the episode this week is, you know, we take for granted the fact that we can even go to church, basically, because every Sunday and every Wednesday night, revivals during the weeks, uh, conferences, you name it, anytime the doors are open of a church and they have something going on, we are free to jump in our car and go or not go.
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Daniel Moore: We totally have that choice.
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Daniel Moore: And we can show up and enjoy the presence of the Lord and come home and not have any issue whatsoever with any kind of legal problems, persecution, any of that kind of thing.
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Daniel Moore: But we know that overseas in different countries, even today, people are getting slaughtered and martyred because they profess Christianity.
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Daniel Moore: They per profess a belief in Christ, and they are sneaking around having these home fellowships.
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Daniel Moore: That's the only place that they can even try to have what we call life groups, they call church, because that's literally all they get.
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Daniel Moore: And they're having to be sneaky to do it because their life is on the line.
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Daniel Moore: And, you know, and I think about that a lot of times, I realize that we can, you know, argue with different people about our country and how it is right now, what it stands for.
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Daniel Moore: We can disagree on politics and you know, all the stuff that goes on today.
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Daniel Moore: There's just so much noise out there about things.
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Daniel Moore: And but what happens in the middle of all that noise is we forget the freedoms that we have.
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Daniel Moore: Yeah.
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Daniel Moore: And we forget the opportunities that we have that a lot of other countries do not have the availability of.
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Daniel Moore: And so we take that stuff for granted.
24:14
Daniel Moore: And I think a lot of times our relationship with Christ becomes superficial because we it's easy for us to get into rats.
24:21
Daniel Moore: It's easy for us to just decide not to go to church and just quit.
24:24
Daniel Moore: You know, we get bored of it, tired of it, or whatever.
24:28
Daniel Moore: And you know, but be not that we should be doing that, but be thankful we can make that choice.
24:33
Daniel Moore: Right.
24:33
Daniel Moore: You know, I mean, there's other places and other countries that they fight to make it to a home fellowship or whatever, and sneak in and do whatever they need to to get that that you know, nurture that relationship with Christ and fellowship with other believers.
24:47
Michelle Moore: Well, this Wednesday, um, we were at church and we got to meet an evangelist.
24:54
Michelle Moore: Um, and he was from Africa.
24:57
Daniel Moore: Yeah, South Africa.
24:58
Michelle Moore: Yeah.
24:58
Michelle Moore: And he was talking about his church like you they have to have the service during like mid-afternoon, early evening, because the kids walk about what, 20, 30 minutes just to get there.
25:12
Michelle Moore: And they said over half of the church population, 50%, was it 50%?
25:17
Daniel Moore: Roughly around that, yeah.
25:18
Michelle Moore: Were youth.
25:19
Daniel Moore: Yeah.
25:20
Michelle Moore: And it just it blew my mind because I was just thinking, then it blew my mind the fact that they would walk 20 to 30 minutes for a church service.
25:30
Michelle Moore: Yeah.
25:30
Michelle Moore: Walk.
25:32
Michelle Moore: This is not by a vehicle.
25:33
Michelle Moore: They walked in the heat, the rain, they walk.
25:37
Daniel Moore: Yeah.
25:38
Michelle Moore: And and I just sat there and I was just being amazed by that.
25:42
Michelle Moore: And I thought to myself, just not only the evangelists being there and staying there, but I just thought to myself, the freedom that we have over here in America, you know, the fact that we can get our vehicles, get a taxi, get any of that, we have such opportunity, but yet we want to gripe about it because we're too tired, or you know, the service is too long, or the music's too loud.
26:07
Michelle Moore: You know, we we we've become our worst enemy at the fact of trying to go to church.
26:13
Michelle Moore: And when these kids are walking 30 minutes, yes, they're young, they can walk.
26:18
Daniel Moore: Yeah.
26:18
Michelle Moore: But would we walk 30 minutes to a church service?
26:20
Michelle Moore: Well, even including ourselves, let's be honest.
26:24
Daniel Moore: Yeah, us, yeah, I agree.
26:26
Michelle Moore: You know, you really think about that.
26:27
Daniel Moore: And then they have to let out church a little early because it's dangerous for them to walk home in the dark because of all the bad things that happen there.
26:34
Daniel Moore: And so they have to let out they have to start a little earlier, get out a little earlier so that those kids can walk back home 30 minutes and be safe.
26:42
Michelle Moore: And it impacted me when he was talking about that, of just just the fact of half of the opportunities that we have over here.
26:49
Daniel Moore: Yeah, it's literally a whole different world.
26:51
Michelle Moore: Yeah.
26:51
Daniel Moore: No doubt about it.
26:53
Daniel Moore: Uh so you know, just got to remember that a home surrender to God can become a lighthouse in a very dark world.
27:00
Daniel Moore: And we do know that we live in a dark world.
27:03
Daniel Moore: Yeah.
27:04
Daniel Moore: Uh we have it in a lot of ways, we have it a lot easier than other countries, obviously, just like we were just discussing.
27:10
Daniel Moore: But we have our own issues over here.
27:12
Daniel Moore: Yeah, right.
27:13
Daniel Moore: I think day by day as time moves on, depending especially on who's in our in our political offices, it becomes, you know, hard for us to keep the freedoms that we have in so many ways.
27:26
Daniel Moore: And so it's something that we constantly have to be in prayer over and make sure that God continues to keep those doors open and helps us to protect the freedoms that everybody's given their life for before us so that we could have it.
27:38
Daniel Moore: And uh so we definitely don't want to negate the opportunities we have or dumb down the opportunities that we have to turn our homes into a mission field by any means.
27:48
Daniel Moore: So as we move on into the rest of this episode this week, we're going to talk about another subject here, and it's called marriage as a platform for outreach.
28:09
Daniel Moore: You know, it all comes full circle when we begin to understand that our homes are so much more than drywall, furniture, and monthly mortgage payments.
28:16
Daniel Moore: And sometimes we forget about that because that mortgage payment comes every month.
28:20
Daniel Moore: But our homes are divine tools placed in our hands by God Himself, and right at the center of that home is one of his greatest earthly gifts and responsibilities, the covenant of marriage.
28:29
Daniel Moore: As Christian husbands and wives, we are called to do more than simply survive marriage or quietly practice our faith behind closed doors.
28:37
Daniel Moore: We're called to model the gospel together.
28:40
Daniel Moore: Our marriages are meant to reflect the relationship between Christ and the church, just like Ephesians 5 teaches us.
28:45
Daniel Moore: That means marriage is not just about personal happiness, compatibility, or finding someone who tolerates our quirks and strange thermostat preferences.
28:53
Daniel Moore: Marriage is ministry, it's partnership, it's discipleship lived out in everyday life.
28:59
Daniel Moore: A godly marriage is not just two people building a life together, it's two people building a testimony together.
29:06
Daniel Moore: There's a difference between those two things.
29:09
Daniel Moore: When people step into our homes, they should experience something different.
29:13
Daniel Moore: And it's not perfection, it's not performance, not a carefully curated image where nobody argues and the throw pillows are always perfectly arranged.
29:21
Daniel Moore: Real Christian homes aren't spotless showrooms.
29:24
Daniel Moore: They're living spaces where grace is practiced daily.
29:28
Daniel Moore: And honestly, if marriage has taught most of us anything, it's that grace gets plenty of opportunities to stretch its legs.
29:35
Daniel Moore: We know that on a daily basis as we try to cohabit with each other and get along.
29:40
Daniel Moore: Sometimes ministry looks spiritual and profound, and other times it looks like apologizing after a misunderstanding that started because one spouse said I'm fine and the other spouse mistakenly believed it.
29:52
Daniel Moore: But that's the beauty of a Christ-centered marriage.
29:55
Daniel Moore: Through patience, forgiveness, humility, and love, we begin reflecting Jesus to one another and to the people around us.
30:01
Daniel Moore: When we open our homes to others, we aren't simply offering them a place to sit, we're inviting them into a living testimony of God's faithfulness.
30:09
Daniel Moore: Whether it's hosting a Bible study, having neighbors over for dinner, praying with another struggling couple, or simply creating a safe space for someone to breathe and be heard, our homes become instruments God can use for eternal impact.
30:22
Daniel Moore: People should walk into our homes and feel peace.
30:25
Daniel Moore: They should feel warmth.
30:27
Daniel Moore: They should sense humility, laughter, generosity, and authenticity.
30:31
Daniel Moore: Not because we have everything figured out, but because Jesus is at the center of what we're building together.
30:37
Daniel Moore: I think it's so important that we realize how important our marriage establishment between us as couples is.
30:46
Daniel Moore: I think so many times, and we've talked about this in other aspects even within our marriage series that we've been through, uh, so many times I feel like we just look at our marriages as something that benefits the two of us.
30:59
Daniel Moore: We have kids, we get to buy a house, we get to own cars, you know, we get to live this life and go on trips and do all this other stuff, and everything seems to be focused just on us and our little circle that's in our home if we're not careful.
31:13
Daniel Moore: But God never wants us to have that.
31:15
Daniel Moore: You know, he wants us to enjoy each other and he's all about the vacations and he's okay with us having a nice place to live and something nice to drive.
31:24
Daniel Moore: I don't think God's against any of that as long as we keep a priority straight.
31:28
Daniel Moore: Yeah.
31:28
Daniel Moore: But at the very core of what God truly wants out of us as a married couple, if we're going to be Christian and we're going to be what we would call discipleship couples or leaders or whatever it may be, and don't get don't mistake this either.
31:42
Daniel Moore: Just because you don't lead a life group and you just attend one doesn't mean you can't be a leader.
31:48
Daniel Moore: That's right, anybody can be anybody that ever leads someone to Christ or your testimony disciples somebody and they watch you and they become a better Christian because of who you are, you in essence are becoming a leader at that point because they are looking up to you and they're watching your testimony and they're watching how you live life every day.
32:07
Daniel Moore: That's good.
32:08
Daniel Moore: They're watching your marriages, they're watching how you two get along in front of them every day.
32:13
Daniel Moore: Yes, we don't always see behind closed doors, so it's real easy for couples to just show up and do their thing, go back home and fight.
32:21
Daniel Moore: I totally get that.
32:22
Daniel Moore: But God sees that.
32:24
Daniel Moore: And if we're gonna truly be disciples and we're gonna truly be leaders, we're gonna truly open our homes and allow people to come in, and we want them to feel that peace.
32:33
Daniel Moore: We want them to feel that warmth, we want them to sense that humility and that laugh or that generosity and authenticity.
32:39
Daniel Moore: The only way that you're gonna get that is if you and I are where we need to be with Christ and we allow him to work through us as a couple, and then we give that back to him as a blessing because he's blessed us.
32:51
Daniel Moore: And I think that that's something that a lot of times as couples, we just don't think about that kind of stuff.
32:57
Daniel Moore: You know, we look at our work that we do for Christ, we look at it that it happens at church or it happens at church functions, you know.
33:05
Daniel Moore: Um, we might meet the occasional person at work and get to witness, or we might see somebody on the street and get to witness.
33:10
Daniel Moore: All of that's good within what it is, but there's so much more to it than that.
33:15
Daniel Moore: Really, our marriages and our lives completely revolve around Christ.
33:18
Daniel Moore: It should constantly be, we should be constantly looking around.
33:22
Daniel Moore: So what can I do next to make a change and a difference in somebody else's life or somebody else's marriage?
33:28
Daniel Moore: And that's if we are in a good place in Christ and a good place in our marriages where we are actually living out that Christ covenant marriage that Christ wants us to, not saying we never fight and argue because there's no person out there that doesn't do that.
33:41
Daniel Moore: Nobody's perfect.
33:43
Daniel Moore: But once we learn how to control those things and to work through those issues and those arguments and still come out a stronger Christian, a stronger married couple in the end, we should be able to be in a place where we can actually let our light shine to other people.
33:57
Michelle Moore: That's good.
33:58
Daniel Moore: And I just I just can't stress enough that, you know, that's probably the core of what this whole episode's about, basically.
34:04
Daniel Moore: Um, because we are, we are a living testimony and other people's watching.
34:09
Daniel Moore: They are watching how we do life as a married couple in Christ, hopefully, so that they can model that same thing if we're doing a good job of it.
34:18
Michelle Moore: And it and it's really interesting because I never really thought of it that way up until a couple of years ago, you know.
34:25
Michelle Moore: It was like, you know, you have your relationship with Christ.
34:28
Michelle Moore: You are, I mean, technically we're evangelists in the world, you know.
34:32
Michelle Moore: We go out, we pour into people, we pour into people at church, but it was never really, I never really thought of our marriage being a testimony.
34:41
Michelle Moore: So it's been very interesting as the last couple of years, just even on this podcast, you know, as we talk about different things, there are things that it helps Dan and I.
34:51
Michelle Moore: And then as we've been going through marriage 911, you know, with our couples and just the pre-marriage counseling that we do as well, there are times that people will bring up stuff and I'm like, oh, you know what?
35:02
Michelle Moore: That that's great, you know.
35:04
Michelle Moore: And so it pours into us, but at the same time, I've never really thought much about a marriage being a mission like that.
35:12
Daniel Moore: Yeah.
35:13
Daniel Moore: And I think a lot of us don't think about it that way.
35:15
Daniel Moore: We really don't.
35:16
Daniel Moore: But that's what God wants us to do.
35:18
Daniel Moore: You know, it's very good.
35:19
Daniel Moore: I think that's why it's so important that these types of episodes are put out there.
35:24
Daniel Moore: And and there's other books that if you go on Amazon, you know, there's lots of books that's about uh the mission of a marriage.
35:31
Daniel Moore: I've not read them all, so I don't know exactly what we're doing.
35:34
Michelle Moore: Well, let me tell you, he reads a lot.
35:35
Daniel Moore: I don't know what topics they all cover, but this is one topic that I felt like in the in this book here that we've released.
35:42
Daniel Moore: I felt like this was an important one because uh our marriages are for Christ.
35:47
Daniel Moore: They're not they're not about me and you.
35:49
Michelle Moore: Right.
35:50
Daniel Moore: It it is to a point, but at the whole core of it, Christ evaporates out of us.
35:55
Daniel Moore: Should that's that's how this should all be taking place.
35:58
Daniel Moore: Through all of that, that makes me and you a better, more loving couple for Jesus.
36:02
Michelle Moore: Well, and I think a lot of times, and you know, we've we've brought up the fact that you know you should have kind of some like a sabbatical or a vision or something for your marriage, and I think that's the reason why it's so important to spend that time together so that you can go before Christ.
36:16
Michelle Moore: Right.
36:16
Michelle Moore: And it's not you're not doing things out for that week or whatever.
36:20
Michelle Moore: You can go do things, but you're actually settling your cycle, your your marriage in Christ at, you know, at that time quietly.
36:28
Daniel Moore: Right.
36:28
Michelle Moore: Because a lot of times we're busy.
36:30
Daniel Moore: Yeah.
36:31
Michelle Moore: As a couple, we're busy, as individuals, we're busy.
36:34
Michelle Moore: And I think that that time of quietness is very, very important.
36:39
Daniel Moore: Yeah, I agree.
36:40
Daniel Moore: I'm gonna lightly hit this one point, I'm gonna have you skip down to the next one here in just a second.
36:45
Daniel Moore: Uh, but people are not drawn to perfect marriages, they're drawn to marriages where the presence of God is evident.
36:50
Daniel Moore: And I think we just covered that pretty well with what we just said.
36:53
Daniel Moore: A couple of scriptures there's Colossians 3.14, it says, and over all these virtues, put on love which binds them all together in perfect unity.
37:02
Daniel Moore: And then if you skip down to Psalm 133.1, it says how good and pleasant it is when God's people live together in unity.
37:08
Daniel Moore: What's the word there that that pulls those two together?
37:10
Daniel Moore: It's unity.
37:11
Daniel Moore: And, you know, together, those differences create a balance whenever we have the different things that happen within our marriages, whether we're a social type person or if we're not a social type person, whatever it may be, it takes all kinds to make the world go around, as they say.
37:27
Daniel Moore: And so it doesn't matter who you are or what your personality trait is or what it may be, uh, there's still a place for everybody when we come together to unify under Christ and who he is.
37:40
Daniel Moore: And the unity of all of that becomes part of that witness.
37:43
Daniel Moore: It becomes of you know who we stand for.
37:45
Daniel Moore: So go ahead and hit the next point.
37:48
Michelle Moore: Yeah.
37:48
Michelle Moore: When a husband and wife minister together in unity, their marriage becomes louder than any sermon they could preach.
37:54
Michelle Moore: We also have to remember something incredibly important.
37:58
Michelle Moore: None of what we have ultimately belongs to us anyway.
38:02
Michelle Moore: Deuteronomy 818 reminds us that it is God who gives us the ability to produce wealth.
38:08
Michelle Moore: Every blessing we enjoy, the roof over our heads, the food on our tables, the resources we steward, and even the strength to work and provide comes from Him.
38:19
Michelle Moore: That changes our perspective completely.
38:22
Michelle Moore: Our homes are not merely personal rewards to enjoy privately.
38:27
Michelle Moore: They are kingdom resources entrusted to us by God.
38:31
Michelle Moore: And stewardship always asks the question how can what God has given me be used for his glory and the good of others?
38:40
Michelle Moore: That means the dining room table is no longer just furniture, it becomes a place for discipleship.
38:48
Michelle Moore: The couch becomes a place where prayers are shared, the guest room becomes a refuge for someone hurting, and the kitchen becomes a place where conversations about Jesus naturally unfold over coffee and casserole.
39:02
Michelle Moore: Suddenly the ordinary becomes holy.
39:05
Michelle Moore: When God is invited into the center of a home, even ordinary moments become sacred ministry, and this mindset changes marriages too.
39:15
Michelle Moore: Instead of asking, what can my spouse do for me?
39:19
Michelle Moore: we begin asking, How can we glorify God together?
39:23
Michelle Moore: That shift is transformational.
39:26
Michelle Moore: A marriage centered only on personal fulfillment will eventually struggle under the weight of unrealistic expectations.
39:34
Michelle Moore: But a marriage centered on a mission gains a deeper purpose during every season, even the difficult ones.
39:42
Michelle Moore: Because couples who serve together often grow together.
39:46
Michelle Moore: Ecclesiastics 4 9 says two are better than one because they have a good return for their labor.
39:53
Michelle Moore: There is power in spiritual partnership, there is strength in shared purpose.
40:00
Michelle Moore: And honestly, some of the strongest marriages aren't the ones without problems.
40:04
Michelle Moore: They're the ones that decided to fight for the same kingdom missions together.
40:09
Daniel Moore: So this comes back again to stewardship.
40:12
Daniel Moore: And honestly, between you and I, you know, we do marriage 911.
40:18
Daniel Moore: Uh so we work with couples that are that are having different struggles in different areas, and we try to work them through the curriculum and and make things better.
40:26
Daniel Moore: And one thing that you and I have consistently more and more talked about, the more couples we've worked with, and the more that we've helped, is how a lot of the way that we show up to the these things in marriage, the way that we show up to what God wants us to do, a lot of it comes back to one word, and that's stewardship.
40:43
Daniel Moore: If you look throughout the Bible, God gives us a lot of things because he expects us to steward those well.
40:50
Daniel Moore: And I've mentioned this before in other conversations, but a lot of times we think of stewardship.
40:56
Daniel Moore: The only time you ever really hear that preached from the pulpit very often when is when it comes to tithing and money and all that kind of thing, because we've got those stewarding sermons, you know, that gets preached all the time about money and that kind of thing.
41:10
Daniel Moore: But it there's more to it than just that.
41:12
Daniel Moore: Yeah.
41:12
Daniel Moore: God gives us resources for everything that we ever do ministry-wise.
41:17
Daniel Moore: And any scenario that we ever get ourselves into in ministry, God has provision for that.
41:23
Daniel Moore: And when He gives us those things and those and provides those things to us, He is doing that and trusting us to the fact that we're going to steward it well, and that whatever comes out of those situations is going to complete 100% glorify God.
41:38
Daniel Moore: Yeah.
41:38
Daniel Moore: It's going to strengthen the kingdom, and it's going to hopefully, in essence, add more people to the kingdom.
41:43
Daniel Moore: And we have to remember that it's not all about us.
41:48
Daniel Moore: We've got to put that pride down.
41:50
Daniel Moore: It's not a it's not a one-man show.
41:53
Daniel Moore: It's not a two-man show.
41:54
Daniel Moore: Um, it's not what can we do to elevate ourselves and make ourselves look awesome and get these accolades and pats on the back because you guys are so awesome.
42:02
Daniel Moore: You're such great leaders.
42:03
Daniel Moore: Everybody loves to hear those kinds of things because it does encourage you.
42:07
Daniel Moore: And I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that, but it can go to your head sometimes if you're not careful and then the intentions are incorrect.
42:14
Michelle Moore: Right.
42:14
Daniel Moore: And it starts becoming something to elevate yourself and become a show-off in a way.
42:19
Daniel Moore: And that's not what God wants.
42:21
Daniel Moore: No.
42:21
Daniel Moore: He gives us things to steward them well.
42:23
Daniel Moore: And so I think that, you know, as we get ready to wrap up this episode this week, I don't know really of a better way that uh, you know, we could really close the episode is to leave it on that note, is that everything that you do, make sure you steward it the way that God wants you to.
42:39
Daniel Moore: If you're a good steward, what does he do?
42:41
Daniel Moore: He gives you more.
42:43
Daniel Moore: And for people that are able to uh steward things that he gives them and do it well, you know, God entrusts more to those people so that they will go do even more.
42:54
Michelle Moore: Right.
42:54
Daniel Moore: And it's that parable of the talents is a very good example of that.
42:58
Daniel Moore: And that has to do with, you know, money in that situation, but it's not just you could put anything in in that category besides money.
43:06
Daniel Moore: Anything that he gives us, if we steward it well and build the kingdom, he'll give us even more to go do something else later.
43:14
Michelle Moore: That's good.
43:15
Daniel Moore: And so, do you have anything to add to this episode before we close it for this week?
43:19
Michelle Moore: No, it's just been so good.
43:21
Daniel Moore: I think over the last couple of weeks covered a lot of territory.
43:24
Michelle Moore: Yeah.
43:25
Michelle Moore: Especially for, you know, it's a good reminder that your marriage is a mission.
43:30
Daniel Moore: Yeah, that's for sure.
43:31
Michelle Moore: Of course, it's your book.
43:32
Michelle Moore: So I mean, it's just it's really good for this whole series has been really good, and it just keeps getting better and better.
43:40
Daniel Moore: Yeah, we've got some excellent stuff coming up here in the next few weeks, and you sure don't want to miss it, that's for sure.
43:45
Daniel Moore: So make sure you keep coming back.
43:48
Daniel Moore: Um, but just remember that revival does not begin with perfection, it begins with surrendered hearts willing to say yes to God.
43:56
Daniel Moore: You know, at the end of the day, opening our homes for ministry is really important.
43:59
Daniel Moore: Really, an act of obedience.
44:01
Daniel Moore: It's saying, Lord, everything we have came from you, and we want to use it for you.
44:06
Daniel Moore: And when couples choose to live that way together, they become part of something so much bigger than themselves.
44:12
Daniel Moore: They become active participants in God's mission right where they are.
44:17
Daniel Moore: It's one meal, one prayer, one conversation, and one open door at a time.
44:24
Daniel Moore: And who knows, the very atmosphere of your home may become the place where someone finally experiences the love, the peace, and presence of Jesus in a life-changing way.
44:35
Daniel Moore: So as we finish up this week's episode, be sure to visit our website at marriagelifeandmore.com and check out all of our different things that we have there as resources.
44:57
Daniel Moore: We have books available.
44:59
Daniel Moore: Of course, you can find out all of our platforms.
45:01
Daniel Moore: If you'd love to subscribe to one of our uh podcasts, I've got another one that's a Bible study podcast as well.
45:06
Daniel Moore: But if you subscribe to this one, you subscribe to both.
45:09
Daniel Moore: So you'll be seeing both episodes come out each week.
45:12
Daniel Moore: Um, but all that stuff is there at our website, so go check that out.
45:15
Daniel Moore: You can also reach us with a form there or email us at Daniel at connectingthegap.net, and we'd love to hear from you guys and see what you've thought about the series so far.
45:25
Daniel Moore: And uh or just uh maybe give us a testimony in your life.
45:28
Daniel Moore: We'd love to hear it.
45:29
Daniel Moore: Well, as we wrap up this episode, maybe the biggest takeaway is this God has placed far more potential inside your home and your marriage than you realize.
45:38
Daniel Moore: Your house does not have to be perfect to become powerful for the kingdom of God.
45:42
Daniel Moore: You don't need a giant platform, a massive ministry budget, or a picture perfect family to make an eternal impact.
45:49
Daniel Moore: You simply need a willing heart and a marriage that says, Lord, use us however you want.
45:56
Daniel Moore: Some of the greatest moments of ministry may never happen in front of crowds.
46:00
Daniel Moore: They'll happen around your dinner table, during late-night conversations with hurting friends, while praying over another couple in your living room, or while simply creating a home where people feel safe, loved, and seen.
46:12
Daniel Moore: Never underestimate how much healing can happen in an environment filled with the presence of God.
46:18
Daniel Moore: A home surrendered to Christ becomes a place where weary people can finally breathe again.
46:23
Daniel Moore: People may not remember every word you say about Jesus, but they will remember the atmosphere that your marriage created around them.
46:30
Daniel Moore: So as you go into this week, ask yourselves the simple question: how can our home become more available to God?
46:37
Daniel Moore: Maybe that means inviting someone over for dinner.
46:39
Daniel Moore: Maybe it means starting a small group.
46:41
Daniel Moore: Maybe it means praying together more intentionally as a couple, or maybe it simply means making your home a place of peace rather than the constant tension.
46:50
Daniel Moore: Start somewhere, because revival often begins with ordinary people opening ordinary doors and allowing God to do extraordinary things through them.
46:59
Daniel Moore: Your marriage is not accidental, your home is not insignificant, and the simple acts of love, hospitality, and obedience you offer to God may impact more lives than you'll ever fully know, this side of heaven.
47:12
Daniel Moore: When Jesus becomes the foundation of a home, even the ordinary becomes eternal.
47:18
Daniel Moore: Well, that's going to do it for this week.
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Daniel Moore: We pray that your marriage is stronger and your walk with God is closer after this episode.
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Daniel Moore: This episode is recorded in the upper room at our Connecting the Gap Studios.
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Daniel Moore: This is an extension of Connecting the Gap Ministries, and we pray that you have a blessed week.